Policy & IP
News Corp. defends moves; As profit soars, the media giant says it's optimistic MySpace will continue to grow.
Los Angeles Times - May 8, 2008
News Corp. executives worked Wednesday to bolster investor confidence for MySpace, the online social network it won praise for buying in 2005 but lately has attracted concern from Wall Street. Chief Operating Officer Peter Chernin acknowledged that Fox Interactive Media, which includes MySpace, would fall 10% short of revenue projections for the fiscal year. But he said that social networks are th...
Microsoft Might Turn To Small Acquisitions As Yahoo Saga Ends Investor's Business Daily - May 6, 2008 Spurned by Yahoo, Microsoft is likely to start dating again soon. Microsoft is committed to growing its Internet advertising business, despite Yahoo's rejection of its $47.5 billion takeover bid. Analysts expect Microsoft to pursue partnerships to grow its Web search business, and to return to smaller, targeted acquisitions. Microsoft also could reconcile with Yahoo at some point, analysts say. (R...
ID thieves find a niche in online social networks Los Angeles Times - May 5, 2008 Michael Maris became an unwitting spammer. The 22-year-old college student from Chicago received messages last year from annoyed friends on MySpace, wondering why he had used the social networking site to send them pitches for male enhancement products. He checked his outgoing mail folder and discovered that someone had hacked into his account, then blasted the unsolicited messages to each of his ...
Microsoft Might Turn To Small Acquisitions As Yahoo Saga Ends Investor's Business Daily - May 6, 2008 Spurned by Yahoo, Microsoft is likely to start dating again soon. Microsoft is committed to growing its Internet advertising business, despite Yahoo's rejection of its $47.5 billion takeover bid. Analysts expect Microsoft to pursue partnerships to grow its Web search business, and to return to smaller, targeted acquisitions. Microsoft also could reconcile with Yahoo at some point, analysts say. (R...
ID thieves find a niche in online social networks Los Angeles Times - May 5, 2008 Michael Maris became an unwitting spammer. The 22-year-old college student from Chicago received messages last year from annoyed friends on MySpace, wondering why he had used the social networking site to send them pitches for male enhancement products. He checked his outgoing mail folder and discovered that someone had hacked into his account, then blasted the unsolicited messages to each of his ...
Digital Copyright
House passes studio-backed, anti-piracy PRO-IP Act
http://www.dmwmedia.com - May 8, 2008
Washington - The U.S. House of Representatives on Thursday approved the PRO-IP Act, a bill pushed for by Hollywood studios that would beef up law enforcement dedicated to protecting intellectual property, as well as increase penalties for piracy....
Copyright infringement a debatable issue Vancouver Sun - May 8, 2008 Chris Brand feels a little bit like a criminal every time he breaks the code of a DVD shipped from family in England so he can watch the video....
Movie studios win $110 million judgment, permanent injunction against TorrentSpy ContentAgenda.com - May 7, 2008 In a significant victory for the major Hollywood studios, a federal judge in Los Angeles has issued a $110 million judgment for the infringement of thousands of popular copyrighted motion pictures and television shows....
Copyright infringement a debatable issue Vancouver Sun - May 8, 2008 Chris Brand feels a little bit like a criminal every time he breaks the code of a DVD shipped from family in England so he can watch the video....
Movie studios win $110 million judgment, permanent injunction against TorrentSpy ContentAgenda.com - May 7, 2008 In a significant victory for the major Hollywood studios, a federal judge in Los Angeles has issued a $110 million judgment for the infringement of thousands of popular copyrighted motion pictures and television shows....
DRM
Net ushers in 'experiential TV'
Telephony - May 5, 2008
The past five years have presented major changes in the TV industry such as extensive, free video-on-demand catalogs and time-shifting with digital video recorders. But TV is about to undergo an even greater transformation from black box service to experiential TV, or ETV. The next wave of TV services will continue to evolve from live and linear to on-demand with multiscreen access. New carrier-ma...
BIDING TIME WITH MOBILE TV Telephony - May 5, 2008 At first glance there appears to be nothing that special about Motorola's new DH line of hand-held mobile TV devices. But these large-screened units access digital video broadcast-handheld networks and are unique among their numerous peers in that they allow pausing, rewinding and fast-forwarding through live programming. Motorola has brought personal video recorder (PVR) capabilities to mobile TV...
Macrovision Closes Acquisition of Gemstar-TV Guide; Combined Organization to Lead the Next Evolution in Digital Home Entertainment Services Business Wire - May 2, 2008 Macrovision Corporation (NASDAQ: MVSN) today announced that it has completed its acquisition of Gemstar-TV Guide (NASDAQ: GMST), a global leader in video and entertainment guidance technology and services. Combining Gemstar-TV and Macrovision technologies positions the company as a key enabler of the digital home entertainment experience. The resulting company, Macrovision Solutions Corporation, i...
BIDING TIME WITH MOBILE TV Telephony - May 5, 2008 At first glance there appears to be nothing that special about Motorola's new DH line of hand-held mobile TV devices. But these large-screened units access digital video broadcast-handheld networks and are unique among their numerous peers in that they allow pausing, rewinding and fast-forwarding through live programming. Motorola has brought personal video recorder (PVR) capabilities to mobile TV...
Macrovision Closes Acquisition of Gemstar-TV Guide; Combined Organization to Lead the Next Evolution in Digital Home Entertainment Services Business Wire - May 2, 2008 Macrovision Corporation (NASDAQ: MVSN) today announced that it has completed its acquisition of Gemstar-TV Guide (NASDAQ: GMST), a global leader in video and entertainment guidance technology and services. Combining Gemstar-TV and Macrovision technologies positions the company as a key enabler of the digital home entertainment experience. The resulting company, Macrovision Solutions Corporation, i...
Legal
Copyright infringement a debatable issue
Vancouver Sun - May 8, 2008
Chris Brand feels a little bit like a criminal every time he breaks the code of a DVD shipped from family in England so he can watch the video....
Movie studios win $110 million judgment, permanent injunction against TorrentSpy ContentAgenda.com - May 7, 2008 In a significant victory for the major Hollywood studios, a federal judge in Los Angeles has issued a $110 million judgment for the infringement of thousands of popular copyrighted motion pictures and television shows....
New York to boost penalties for content piracy Broadcasting & Cable - May 5, 2008 New York State Attorney General Andrew Cuomo held a press conference to say the state was going to ramp up its crack down on movie piracy, which he said costs the state $2.6 billion and thousands of jobs....
Movie studios win $110 million judgment, permanent injunction against TorrentSpy ContentAgenda.com - May 7, 2008 In a significant victory for the major Hollywood studios, a federal judge in Los Angeles has issued a $110 million judgment for the infringement of thousands of popular copyrighted motion pictures and television shows....
New York to boost penalties for content piracy Broadcasting & Cable - May 5, 2008 New York State Attorney General Andrew Cuomo held a press conference to say the state was going to ramp up its crack down on movie piracy, which he said costs the state $2.6 billion and thousands of jobs....
Regulation & Legislation
House passes studio-backed, anti-piracy PRO-IP Act
http://www.dmwmedia.com - May 8, 2008
Washington - The U.S. House of Representatives on Thursday approved the PRO-IP Act, a bill pushed for by Hollywood studios that would beef up law enforcement dedicated to protecting intellectual property, as well as increase penalties for piracy....
House weighs Internet freedom The Washington Times - May 7, 2008 What is net neutrality ? What is network management ? How does the United States ensure continued innovation on the Internet? Is there a problem that needs fixing?...
Telecom in Africa gets Asia's attention The International Herald Tribune - May 8, 2008 Hilda Wang in Hong Kong and Andrew E. Kramer in Moscow contributed reporting. * A battle for MTN Group, a leading South African telecommunications company, could come down to a clash between the world's largest and fastest-growing emerging markets. Bharti Airtel of India, which said Monday that it was in talks with MTN, is expected to face stiff competition from a Chinese rival, some investment ba...
House weighs Internet freedom The Washington Times - May 7, 2008 What is net neutrality ? What is network management ? How does the United States ensure continued innovation on the Internet? Is there a problem that needs fixing?...
Telecom in Africa gets Asia's attention The International Herald Tribune - May 8, 2008 Hilda Wang in Hong Kong and Andrew E. Kramer in Moscow contributed reporting. * A battle for MTN Group, a leading South African telecommunications company, could come down to a clash between the world's largest and fastest-growing emerging markets. Bharti Airtel of India, which said Monday that it was in talks with MTN, is expected to face stiff competition from a Chinese rival, some investment ba...
Trade
AFTRA has SAG at arm's length
Daily Variety - May 8, 2008
In a move underlining the deep divisions between the two performers unions, AFTRA's not letting the Screen Actors Guild get back into the negotiating room with the majors --- at least for a few weeks. The American Federation of Television & Radio Artists spurned a SAG bid Wednesday to postpone its primetime negotiations with the majors so the guild could continue its talks, which ended as schedule...
News Corp. defends moves; As profit soars, the media giant says it's optimistic MySpace will continue to grow. Los Angeles Times - May 8, 2008 News Corp. executives worked Wednesday to bolster investor confidence for MySpace, the online social network it won praise for buying in 2005 but lately has attracted concern from Wall Street. Chief Operating Officer Peter Chernin acknowledged that Fox Interactive Media, which includes MySpace, would fall 10% short of revenue projections for the fiscal year. But he said that social networks are th...
Movie studios win $110 million judgment, permanent injunction against TorrentSpy ContentAgenda.com - May 7, 2008 In a significant victory for the major Hollywood studios, a federal judge in Los Angeles has issued a $110 million judgment for the infringement of thousands of popular copyrighted motion pictures and television shows....
News Corp. defends moves; As profit soars, the media giant says it's optimistic MySpace will continue to grow. Los Angeles Times - May 8, 2008 News Corp. executives worked Wednesday to bolster investor confidence for MySpace, the online social network it won praise for buying in 2005 but lately has attracted concern from Wall Street. Chief Operating Officer Peter Chernin acknowledged that Fox Interactive Media, which includes MySpace, would fall 10% short of revenue projections for the fiscal year. But he said that social networks are th...
Movie studios win $110 million judgment, permanent injunction against TorrentSpy ContentAgenda.com - May 7, 2008 In a significant victory for the major Hollywood studios, a federal judge in Los Angeles has issued a $110 million judgment for the infringement of thousands of popular copyrighted motion pictures and television shows....
Downloading illegally? Shame on you - May 7, 2008
It's said that you can't legislate morality. But is it possible to graft a moral framework onto the intentionally anarchic and extra-jurisdictional Internet? Media Wonk sat through a day's worth DRM panels at the Digital Hollywood Spring conference in Los Angeles Wednesday (Do Not Attempt, Media Wonk is a trained professional) where the emerging gestalt seemed to be that shame and the loss anonymity could do more to deter rampant co...
Buzzworthy
TorrentSpy won't pay fine
May 8, 2008
David Kravets reports that "a day after a U.S. judge dinged TorrentSpy with one of the largest fines in copyright history, the lawyer for the torrent-tracking search engine said Thursday the $111 million judgment won't get paid."
May 8, 2008
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RIAA: DRM will return
May 8, 2008
Greg Sandoval reports from the Digital Hollywood conference that the "news of DRM's death has been greatly exaggerated, according to an executive with the Recording Industry Association of America (RIAA)."
-- "(Recently) I made a list of the 22 ways to sell music and 20 of them still require DRM," said David Hughes, who heads up the RIAA's technology unit, during a panel discussion at the Digital Hollywood conference. "Any form of subscription service or limited play-per-view or advertising offer still requires DRM. So DRM is not dead."
-- Hughes also said that DRM must change so that the public sees it less as a sort of policeman that locks music a way. He would prefer a mode where consumers don't notice DRM at all. "People just want music when they want it," he said. "It's about access. If they get that then they don't care about DRM."
May 8, 2008
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-- "(Recently) I made a list of the 22 ways to sell music and 20 of them still require DRM," said David Hughes, who heads up the RIAA's technology unit, during a panel discussion at the Digital Hollywood conference. "Any form of subscription service or limited play-per-view or advertising offer still requires DRM. So DRM is not dead."
-- Hughes also said that DRM must change so that the public sees it less as a sort of policeman that locks music a way. He would prefer a mode where consumers don't notice DRM at all. "People just want music when they want it," he said. "It's about access. If they get that then they don't care about DRM."
Lycos alters course – now a VOD player
May 5, 2008
Via MG Siegler at Venture Beat: Continuing their shift from the search game to online communities and broadband entertainment, Lycos, one of the early search engines, has released Lycos Cinema, an online video on demand service. The press release is here. Siegler points out at least three problems with the new service - hello content!. I like the new logo. Happy Monday....
May 5, 2008
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